It’s one of the 65 or so days of rain each year here in Colorado.  The temperature dropped a good 15 degrees today, and now the thunder is rolling in.  Tonight is D&D Encounters, the end of a chapter.  It should be a fun time, and I hope my character survives. In other news, I […]

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Karate night tonight, we opened up the class with some basic combinations done in a circle.  Then we moved on to their Shodan test basics, transcribed from a 2006 dan exam: Sanbon tsuki Variations on lin-geri (front kicks, round kicks, side kicks) Inward block, elbow strike, backfist strike, reverse punch Outward block in back stance, […]

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Today was my day off for the Fourth of July, so I celebrated it by sleeping in and then getting caught up on a “for fun” coding project.  The project is to build a “Choose Your Own Adventure” style of app and it is proving to be quite a fun exercise in database design and […]

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Today, Tasha and I spent a lazy day relaxing.  I grilled bacon-wrapped filet mignon for our Fourth of July celebration.  Then the weird weather set in.  The Denver area had giant hail, flash flood warnings, and a really strange cold snap… our “feels like” temperature was 43 for awhile tonight. So needless to say, Tasha […]

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Today started out with a chiropractic adjustment, lunch out at Chick-fil-A, then shopping at the Mall with Tasha.  After all that, we opted for a nap… there’s nothing better than a lazy three-hour nap on a day off! We decided that we couldn’t be bothered to make dinner, so we went to Olive Garden where […]

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Today was another barn-burner at work.  I can handle a fairly significant amount of change in a given time period, but lately it has been grating on me.  Without going into too much detail, I was asked to essentially change what I was supposed to be focused and working on three times in three days. […]

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I’m testing out a new WordPress plugin that should notify my fine readers each time I post.  Don’t be surprised if you see some additional posts as I play around with this thing.

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